Community Foundation Awards $130,750 in Scholarships
The Outer Banks Community Foundation is awarding $130,750 in scholarships this year. A total of 58 talented and hard-working students — college students and graduating high school seniors — are receiving awards this year from Dare County, Currituck County, and Ocracoke.
Thirty-five graduating seniors from First Flight, Manteo, Cape Hatteras, Ocracoke, and Currituck are receiving scholarships from the Community Foundation, totaling $69,050 in student awards. Thirteen of those awards are renewable, representing an additional $61,100 in future scholarship awards.
In addition, 23 college students — all originally from Dare or Currituck — received renewed scholarships from the Community Foundation, totaling another $61,700 in awards this year.
Among the scholarship winners this year is Taylor Cecil, who received the Milton A. Jewell Scholarship, the Community Foundation’s most prestigious merit-based award. Established by bequest by the late Ruth Medgyes of Southern Shores, the Milton A. Jewell Scholarship is granted each year to students with extraordinary academic achievement and outstanding community service.
As valedictorian of her class, president of her school’s National Honor Society chapter, volunteer tutor for Monday Night Alive, head of the outreach committee for her student government, and volunteer media technician for her church, Ms. Cecil exhibited all of the leadership qualities of a quintessential Milton Jewell Scholar.
Ms. Cecil plans to attend NC State University in the fall to study chemical engineering and French. Her goal is to work in a research lab to develop “more efficient, potent, and individualized forms of cancer treatment” and to “cure a currently incurable disease.” Ms. Cecil’s $5,000 award is renewable for up to three additional years, for a total award of $20,000.
Because the field of candidates was so spectacular, the Community Foundation’s scholarship committee chose to make a second Milton Jewell award this year. The winner was Molly Weybright of First Flight High School, who will receive a $1,100 scholarship, renewable for an additional three years, for a total award of $4,400. Ms. Weybright is an accomplished trumpet player and dancer who plans to study genetics at UNC Chapel Hill in the fall.
Also awarded this year was the coveted Jerry and Arlene Davis Scholarship, presented to Madeline Bailey, the vice president of her senior class at First Flight High School. The Jerry and Arlene Davis Scholarship was established in 2007 by Mr. and Mrs. Davis to help hard-working students achieve educational dreams that might not otherwise be possible. Ms. Bailey has worked as a hostess and busser for Ocean Boulevard for the past three years and at Oceanfront Grille before that.
She has been managing editor of the Nighthawk News, a varsity soccer player, volunteer coordinator for her school’s Key Club, and a member of Teen Court — all while remaining in the top 10% of her class. The $5,000 Jerry and Arlene Davis Scholarship is renewable for up to three additional years, for a total award of $20,000. Ms. Bailey will attend UNC Chapel Hill in the fall to study journalism.
The Community Foundation manages scholarship funds not only for families, but also for churches, civic groups, nonprofits, and businesses. The Community Foundation’s newest scholarship is the Ocracoke Island Realty and Village Realty Scholarship, which awarded $4,000 this year. The Community Foundation manages scholarship funds for the Outer Banks Association of Realtors, Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church, the College of the Albemarle Foundation, Dare Community Crime Line, the Duck Woods Ladies Tennis and Golf Associations, and the North Banks, Manteo, and First Flight Rotary clubs, among others.
The Outer Banks Community Foundation is open to anyone who wishes to establish a scholarship endowment or contribute to one of our existing scholarship funds. The Community Foundation has awarded more than $1,300,000 in scholarships to over 1,200 Outer Banks students since the organization’s inception in 1983. For more information, call 252-261-8839.
Outer Banks Community Foundation 2014 Scholarships
Catherine Carrington Clawson Scholarship
Hannah Barnes: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2014)
Charles H. & Dorothy S. Luedemann Art Scholarship
Savannah Brown: $1,500 renewable (Cape Hatteras Class of 2014)
Gage Clawson: $1,500 renewable (Manteo Class of 2014)
Amelia Kasten: $1,300 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013)
Morgan Leatherwood: $1,300 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013)
Shelby Matthews: $1,300 renewable (First Flight Class of 2012)
Nickolas Nelson: $1,300 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013)
Andrew Sanchez: $1,300 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013)
Jose Valle: $1,500 renewable (First Flight Class of 2014)
Summer Warrington: $1,500 renewable (First Flight Class of 2014)
Courtney M. Burgess Memorial Scholarship
Rachel Dutton: $1,000 renewable (Manteo Class of 2012)
Ann Jernigan: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2014)
Sara Seto: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2012)
Curtis Creech Memorial Scholarship
Molly Kinnisten: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2014)
Dare County Association of Fire Officers Scholarship
Kermit Farrow: $1,000 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2013)
Harrison Gardner: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Colby Sawyer: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2013)
Dare County Outer Banks Jaycees Scholarship
Cheyanne Wescott: $500 renewable (Manteo Class of 2013)
Dare Math/Science Scholarship
Caroline Lowcher: $1,000 (last year of four-year award) (Manteo Class of 2011)
Dorothy Scott Townsend Fletcher Memorial Scholarship
Taylor Bancroft: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Will Hicks: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2014)
Andrea Wilson: $1,000 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2014)
Duck Woods Ladies Tennis Association Scholarship
Tyler Carter: $1,000 (Currituck Class of 2014)
Elmer & Betty Jo Sawyer Scholarship
Amelia Frasure: $1,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2014)
Molly Kinnisten: $1,000 renewable (Manteo Class of 2014)
First Flight Society Scholarship
Kyle Andrews: $500 (Manteo Class of 2013)
Founders Scholarship (Duck Woods Ladies Golf Association)
Dewey Weber Wise: $1,500 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Frank M. Cahoon Memorial Scholarship
Bryson Green: $750 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Brennan Wescott: $750 (Manteo Class of 2014)
George W. Neighbors Memorial Scholarship
Taylor Bancroft: $1,100 renewable (First Flight Class of 2014)
Glenn Eure Arts Education Scholarship
Savannah Brown: $1,000 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2014)
Greg & Eden Honeycutt Scholarship
Alma Flores: $3,000 (Ocracoke Class of 2014)
Andrew Gray: $2,000 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2014)
Inez Daniels Austin Scholarship
Savannah Brown: $2,250 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2014)
Jerry & Arlene Davis Scholarship
Madeline Bailey: $5,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2014)
Charles Shotton: $5,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013)
William Smith: $5,000 (last year of four-year award) (First Flight Class of 2011)
Hunter Wright: $5,000 renewable (Manteo Class of 2012)
John T. Daniels Scholarship
Suzanne Mullins: $1,000 renewable (Currituck Class of 2014)
Kellogg Cuthrell Manteo Rotary Scholarship
Emmanuel Asher Daniels: $600 (Manteo Class of 2014)
Samuel Tronolone: $600 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Kiwanis Leo Sheetz Memorial Scholarship
Lydia Hazelwonder: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Samuel Tronolone: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Lacy J. McNeill First Flight Rotary Scholarship
Andrew Scott: $800 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Dixon Wingrove: $800 (Manteo Class of 2014)
Lucian Griffin Scholarship
Suzanne Mullins: $1,100 (Currituck Class of 2014)
Mabel O. Cooper Scholarship
Mitchell Foster: $1,500 renewable (First Flight Class of 2012)
Taylor Swankie: $1,500 (last year of four-year award) (First Flight Class of 2011)
Paige Twyne: $1,500 renewable (Manteo Class of 2014)
Cheyanne Wescott: $1,500 renewable (Manteo Class of 2013)
Milton A. Jewell Scholarship
Jennifer Bryson: $5,000 (last year of four-year award) (First Flight Class of 2011)
Taylor Cecil: $5,000 renewable (Manteo Class of 2014)
Kermit Farrow: $2,500 renewable (Cape Hatteras Class of 2013)
Richard Murphy: $5,000 renewable (Manteo Class of 2012)
Zachary Owen: $5,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013)
Taylor Swankie: $5,000 (last year of four-year award) (First Flight Class of 2011)
Molly Weybright: $1,100 renewable (First Flight Class of 2014)
North Banks Rotary Scholarship
Altazera Delaney Goldberg: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Bailey Gray: $1,000 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2014)
Lydia Hazelwonder: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Molly Kinnisten: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2014)
Jose Valle: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Ocracoke Island Realty and Village Realty Scholarship
Madeline Bailey: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Alma Flores: $1,000 (Ocracoke Class of 2014)
Amanda Gaskins: $1,000 (Ocracoke Class of 2014)
Jose Valle: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Outer Banks Association of Realtors Scholarship
Kaylee Appleman: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Taylor Bancroft: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Savannah Brown: $1,500 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2014)
Brittany Copeland: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2014)
Bailey Gray: $500 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2014)
Taylor Seal: $1,000 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Paige Twyne: $1,000 (Manteo Class of 2014)
Peggy O’Brien Scholarship
Leighanne Davis: $1,100 renewable (Currituck Class of 2012)
Ralph and Ida Lee Saunders Scholarship
Catherine Elliott: $500 (Currituck Class of 2014)
Robert E. Rollason, Jr. Memorial Scholarship
Madeline Bailey: $1,200 (First Flight Class of 2014)
Sawyer Scholarship
Aaron Zeigler: $5,000 renewable (First Flight Class of 2013)
Sgt. Earl Murray Memorial Scholarship
Brennan Wescott: $300 (Manteo Class of 2014)
Stewart Couch Memorial Scholarship
Bailey Gray: $1,000 (Cape Hatteras Class of 2014)
Tom O’Brien Scholarship
Tucker Jarvis: $1,100 renewable (Currituck Class of 2012)
Wallace H. McCown Scholarship
Taylor Cecil: $2,200 (Manteo Class of 2014)
Additional photographs of the scholarship winners are posted on the Community Foundation’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Outer-Banks-Community-Foundation/131828147548.
